Sir Thomas Rudolph Hampden Smith, 2nd Baronet,

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(24 January 1869 – 25 June 1958) was a British

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. Smith was the son of the eminent surgeon

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, and his wife Ann Eliza (née Parbury). He was educated at

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and

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, and trained as a doctor at

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in London, beginning his career there as a house surgeon. In 1895 he was elected

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(FRCS). From 1906 to 1913 he practised at

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. He succeeded to the

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on his father's death in 1909 and in 1913 moved to

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. He was appointed

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(CBE) in January 1920 for his work in the

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, during which he headed the Torquay Hospital for Wounded Soldiers. He married Ann Ellen Sharp in 1897. She died in 1928. They had no children, and on his death in 1958 the baronetcy passed to his nephew, Thomas Smith, of New Zealand, son of his younger brother and fellow surgeon Gilbert.

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*Obituary, ''

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'', 27 June 1958 *Biography, ''

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'' 1869 births 1958 deaths People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital English surgeons Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom {{England-med-bio-stub